On 9/20/07, dawn_atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Robyn Schulze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Its the ones who regard those of us into natural methods as lunatics > who don't know what we're talking about. Those are the ones who won't > change. So sadly, it IS going to be us vs. them, to a degree. > > ---------------------You are wrong on this. *I'M* one of those who > thought of you and the natural method people as lunatics who didn't > know what you were talking about. I have indeed changed my ideas on > this! I went from riding in the dropped noseband, traditional > Icelandic saddle that didn't fit, and shoes all the time to riding in a > sidepull, treeless saddle and barefoot. I have been studying the Linda > Tellington Jones TTouch stuff, and have started taking a more holistic > approach to training and riding. I have employed the clicker training > method to help turn a horse around who had a bad start under saddle. > *I* have changed. If I can change, others can too.
Good! I'm glad to be wrong then! And glad that you have found a way that works better for you and your horse. Robyn S -- Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures. ~ The Dalai Lama
